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• Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Children, Order, Giving

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• The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Clergy, Opposition

  Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, September 23, 1800.

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• There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Compulsion, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Made

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• One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed by the industrial revolution by people looking for work wherever they can find it. And a nuclear family, a man, a woman and kids and a dog and cat is no survival scheme at all. Horribly vulnerable.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dog, Cat, Kids

  "Now" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2005.

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• I say things that can be defined as prayers. But I don't pray to a power or ask an entity to intercede in the earthly scheme, because I don't believe that happens. But if I see a really unfortunate person in the street, I do pray, yes, though I suppose it's really more like a mantra to ease my own sorrow.

  George Carlin

  Prayer, Believe, Sorrow

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• My song are more about the practical message of not wearing ourselves out just to get rich and looking at what life is really about and enjoying each and every day as opposed to the opposite of that. About living your life in a freer sense and not being bound by what people think of you and looking forward to seeing the grander scheme of who God is, what He's done and what He's doing and what He'd going to do.

  Peter Furler

  Song, Thinking, Opposites

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

  Robert De Niro

  Thinking, Choices, Way

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• I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential part of what we do as actors. But I think in the grand scheme of things, comedy was born from tragedy. First there was tragedy and then there were the comedies.

  Alex O'Loughlin

  Drama, School, Thinking

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• I'm merely a baseball player, guys. In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.

  John Rocker

  Baseball, Attitude, Player

  "Profit Warnings Cut Across Wall Street; Eli Lilly Surges on News of Potential Medical Breakthrough; Oracle and Microsoft Wage War of Words". "Moneyline News Hour", edition.cnn.com. June 29, 2000.

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• Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Real, Men

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.236, University of Illinois Press

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• We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Knights, Suffering

  H. S. Bennett, E. K. Chambers, C. S. Lewis, Douglas Bush, W. L. Remwick (1954). “The Oxford History of English Literature”

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• He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had had a good deal of material left over which she had not liked to throw away but hardly seemed able to fit into the general scheme.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Long, Able

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• The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

  George Santayana

  Horse, Focus, Mind

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• The various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the 'social' - that is the public, cooperative, societal - element of the program and 'security' - the rock-solid income guarantee afforded by the system. It should be rejected.

  Ralph Nader

  Rocks, Income, Cost

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• Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading through up to your eyes in blood, you could only end up where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found... all is confusion beyond it.

  Edmund Burke

  Eye, Thinking, Blood

  Edmund Burke (1919). “Speech on Conciliation with America”

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• Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?

  William O. Douglas

  Together, Common, Mankind

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Heart, People, Marketing

  "Esperanza Spalding: Grammy Award 2011 Winner For Best New Artist", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2011.

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• NDCC is an admirable job of amassing information to prove that communism is socialism and socialism (a plot to enslave the world) is not a movement of the downtrodden but a scheme supported and directed by the wealthiest of people. If enough Americans read and act upon NDCC, they really can save the Republic from the conspirators--whose plans for the destruction of our country are galloping fast toward completion.

  Dan Smoot

  Country, Jobs, People

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• I spend a lot of time thinking about what I do and how it fits into the scheme of things. I won't do something just because it's funny.

  Joel Hodgson

  Thinking, Fit

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• Tears and fears and feeling proud
  To say I love you, right out loud
  Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
  I've looked at life that way.
  But now old friends are acting strange
  They shake their heads, they say I've changed
  Something's lost, but something's gained
  In living every day
  I've looked at life from both sides now
  From win and lose, and still somehow
  It's life's illusions I recall
  I really don't know life at all

  Joni Mitchell

  Dream, Song, Love You

  "Both Sides Now" (song) (1967)

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• Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

  Diane Watson

  Investment, Social, Program

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• But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For love of money is the root of all of evil and some having pursued its power, fall from faith and end in sorrow.

  Saint Timothy

  Inspirational, Life, Fall

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• Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Choices, Causes

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747). “The Spectator”, p.473

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• I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.

  J. P. Morgan

  Life, Connections, Remember

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